FINE EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCRAP ALBUM [ANON]:

23 x 20cm. Handsome contemporary full green morocco with elaborate decorative borders in gilt and blind to the boards, the spine ruled in gilt and with decorative floral and harp devices in gilt. All edges gilt. Green endpapers. Dated "1835" to the front free endpaper. The contents comprising 54 leaves of white and coloured papers with 6 mounted watercolours, 2 drawings, 1 hand-cut silhouette, 143 engravings (21 with hand-colouring), 20 clippings (including 11 musical pieces), and 5 manuscript love poems, mostly to rectos only, occasionally also to versos, plus a handful of blanks (the album largely full). Some original pieces initialled "M.G.". Small contemporary maker's label to the front pastedown for "Fauntleroy & Buxton / Stationers & Account Book Manufacturers / 156 Leadenhall St.". The binding is square and firm with rubbing to the extremities and a few small scuffs to the boards. The contents with the occasional spot of foxing or finger-marking are otherwise in very good order throughout. A nicely-composed 1830s scrap album in an attractive contemporary binding, containing a typical array of literary, artistic, topographical and juvenile engravings (including three early industrial scenes - a canal, "Ramage's new telescope", and a silk loom), several watercolours (including a butterfly with fruit, a young girl, and a schooner), a hand-cut silhouette of a bird on a branch, a drawing with a collage dog and bird within an embossed frame, and five touching love poems.